Tag: medical imagery
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Evening Shades
I wrote Evening Shades after reading H.D.’s Evening and wanting to translate its floral disappearance into a diagnostic one. The poem examines how light and shadow behave inside the body—how visibility itself becomes a kind of haunting.
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Love Is
I wrote Love Is after my cancer surgery, when my wife sat beside me and held my hand as I woke. The poem is about how love survives the body’s breaking — not through comfort, but through the persistence of touch after pain.